Re: [cwe-lug] ~/bin in PATH - where?

[Ed Howland]

I'm not sure it matters. Depends on what you have in ~/bin. If any 
executable content there shadows local and system bins, then you must 
have had a reason for doing that. IMHO, however, I'd sooner use an alias 
than rely on path precedence. I just have shell scripts in there anyway 
with unique names so it just should be anywhere in my path.

Currently, mine is at the end, but other stuff tends to get tagged on 
(like $JAVA/bin)  This is more of a condition of the order of .profile 
loading. By the time it gets to my local .bash_profile, $PATH is setup. 
So PATH=$PATH:~/bin works out that way.

Ed

Robert Citek wrote:
On Tuesday, Mar 29, 2005, at 15:00 US/Central, L. V. Lammert wrote:
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Robert Citek wrote:
Where should ~/bin be in one's PATH?

My preference is typically /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
Theory is to grab any local, then userland, then system.

So you'd put ~/bin (aka $HOME/bin) in the middle?
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